Recycling wasted architectures and refused urban territories: an ethical and aesthetic strategy for sustainable urban transformation.
Architectures and abandoned spaces can be of valuable reserves for the city and territory, in an environmental strategy as opposed to unreasonable consumption of soil.
We need to rethink those parts of the city, the result of urbanization and growth in the recent past but technologically obsolete, "Inner peripheries", urban patterns that conform as closed systems, which show signs of crisis and disaffection.
The idea of recycling of such parts is connected with the concept of new architectural forms from waste: it contains the positive value of evolution, as a repository of opportunities for transformation into a new entity, socially and economically useful.
This is to find ways of recycling sites in which the city shows clear signs of crisis, reconsidering the issue of consumption of finite resources.
The waste of the city can be transformed into resources through a program of conversion to a new quality of products and spaces already settled; areas of construction abandoned or depressed, are common presences that can be reinterpreted by a new configuration from the existing part.
In these cases, the production of architectural value can correspond to a re-design of buildings with innovative energy-efficient morphologies.
The need for ecological sustainability and efficiency of entire urban areas may be the chance of a complete recycling of everyday scenarios, ordinary appearances that can be overwritten by their new configuration:
an opportunity for the production of architecture and not only of regulatory compliance of outdate buildings.
For this urban heritage –buildings and sites in obsolescence trend- architects are called upon to study the strategies for reactivation of new dynamics through integrated recycling projects.
To testify how up to date is the subject I just remember something going on in Rome: Recycling as one of the greatest generators of creative innovation is the slogan of the major exhibition now on display at MAXXI - Art Museum of Twenty first century.
“RE-CYCLE. Strategies for Architecture, City and Planet “is the name of the exhibition devoted to the architecture of the third millennium and its most innovative practitioners.
On show are over 80 works including drawings, models as well as architectural, planning and landscape design projects

Recycling wasted architectures and refused urban territories: an ethical and aesthetic strategy for sustainable urban transformation.
Architectures and abandoned spaces can be of valuable reserves for the city and territory, in an environmental strategy as opposed to unreasonable consumption of soil.
We need to rethink those parts of the city, the result of urbanization and growth in the recent past but technologically obsolete, "Inner peripheries", urban patterns that conform as closed systems, which show signs of crisis and disaffection.
The idea of recycling of such parts is connected with the concept of new architectural forms from waste: it contains the positive value of evolution, as a repository of opportunities for transformation into a new entity, socially and economically useful.
This is to find ways of recycling sites in which the city shows clear signs of crisis, reconsidering the issue of consumption of finite resources.
The waste of the city can be transformed into resources through a program of conversion to a new quality of products and spaces already settled; areas of construction abandoned or depressed, are common presences that can be reinterpreted by a new configuration from the existing part.
In these cases, the production of architectural value can correspond to a re-design of buildings with innovative energy-efficient morphologies.
The need for ecological sustainability and efficiency of entire urban areas may be the chance of a complete recycling of everyday scenarios, ordinary appearances that can be overwritten by their new configuration:
an opportunity for the production of architecture and not only of regulatory compliance of outdate buildings.
For this urban heritage –buildings and sites in obsolescence trend- architects are called upon to study the strategies for reactivation of new dynamics through integrated recycling projects.
To testify how up to date is the subject I just remember something going on in Rome: Recycling as one of the greatest generators of creative innovation is the slogan of the major exhibition now on display at MAXXI - Art Museum of Twenty first century.
“RE-CYCLE. Strategies for Architecture, City and Planet “is the name of the exhibition devoted to the architecture of the third millennium and its most innovative practitioners.
On show are over 80 works including drawings, models as well as architectural, planning and landscape design projects